“International Market Centers is delighted to provide a platform for retailers, designers and innovators to network with fellow thought-leaders and experience the latest trends at the world’s largest furnishings industry gathering,” said Dorothy Belshaw, executive vice president, chief marketing and digital officer for International Market Centers. “We’re proud to offer an extensive lineup of interactive, educational and inspiring programming this fall.”

IMC’s Fall High Point Market educational and social offerings will feature 18 seminars, 11 designer-led tours and numerous IMC-hosted events. Presented by industry experts and designers, the schedule of events allows retailers and designers to supplement their buying activities with complimentary programming that encompasses trends, business strategies and forecasts. Marketgoers can attend these seminars in the Suites at Market Square Seminar Room on the Top Floor of the SAMS; and in the Alden Parkes Seminar Room in the Hamilton Wrenn Design District. Events and tours will be held in various IMC properties across campus.

Fall Market programming highlights include: IMC’s proprietary TrendWatch: Fall 2019 program, which will give attendees an inside look at leading trends shaping the home furnishings industry; Fresh to Follow Local: Furnished at Market!, a mini-presentation introducing several artisans with works currently on display at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) and a reception onsite at the showcase; DesignEDGE: An Industry Summit by IFDA Educational Foundation, a market-time conference featuring top female designers casting their visions, insights and experiences; Light-ography, a discussion about how integrated LED lighting creates structure, movement, and color in today's interior design world; Form, Function and Family, a designer-led panel discussion on how to design a space with purpose; The New Elegance: Designing Stylish Comfortable Rooms for Today, a presentation by Timothy Corrigan about his new book of the same title; and Lift Up and Lead: Building Inspired Teams through Impassioned Leadership, a panel of design professionals whose impassioned leadership skills help them achieve both professional and personal success while also lifting up team members to work in their greatness. A full seminar and event listing follows and details and descriptions are available online at http://www.imchighpointmarket.com/seminars-and-events/.

About High Point Market:High Point Market is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, with more than 2,000 manufacturers in 11.5 million square feet of showroom and exhibit space in multiple buildings in downtown High Point, North Carolina. Each Market attracts tens of thousands of retail home furnishings buyers, interior designers, architects, and others in the home furnishings industry. International Market Centers owns the vast majority of the prime High Point Market showroom and exhibit real estate, which contain seventy percent of the exhibitors, including the majority of the top 500 manufacturers. Fall 2019 High Point Market runs Oct. 19 – Oct. 23, 2019. For more information, visit http://www.imchighpointmarket.com.

About International Market Centers, L.P.: International Market Centers, L.P. (IMC is the world’s largest operator of premier showroom space for furniture, gift, home décor, rug, and apparel industries. International Market Centers owns and operates nearly 20 million square feet of world-class exhibition space in High Point, N.C., Las Vegas and Atlanta. IMC’s mission is to build and operate an innovative, sustainable, profitable and scalable platform for the furniture, gift, home décor, rug, and apparel industries. For more information about IMC, visit www.imcenters.com.

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